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Very rarely, in the case of those pleural effusions with a solid pleural component, a positron emission tomography can be performed. <ref name="pmid25188411">{{cite journal| author=Porcel JM, Hernández P, Martínez-Alonso M, Bielsa S, Salud A| title=Accuracy of fluorodeoxyglucose-PET imaging for differentiating benign from malignant pleural effusions: a meta-analysis. | journal=Chest | year= 2015 | volume= 147 | issue= 2 | pages= 502-512 | pmid=25188411 | doi=10.1378/chest.14-0820 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=25188411 }} </ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Dushka Riaz, MD
Overview
Imaging for pleural effusions relies heavily on chest x-ray, MRIs, and CT scans. [1]
Other Imaging Findings
Very rarely, in the case of those pleural effusions with a solid pleural component, a positron emission tomography can be performed. [2]
References
- ↑ Jany B, Welte T (2019). "Pleural Effusion in Adults-Etiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment". Dtsch Arztebl Int. 116 (21): 377–386. doi:10.3238/arztebl.2019.0377. PMC 6647819 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 31315808. - ↑ Porcel JM, Hernández P, Martínez-Alonso M, Bielsa S, Salud A (2015). "Accuracy of fluorodeoxyglucose-PET imaging for differentiating benign from malignant pleural effusions: a meta-analysis". Chest. 147 (2): 502–512. doi:10.1378/chest.14-0820. PMID 25188411.